BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update 2020-May-1 is a deliverable for BMC Discovery 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 series.
Product content updates require appliance restart
This TKU release contains product content additions. When product content is added, the appliance is restarted as part of the update. You are given the opportunity to prevent the restart, though if you do so, none of the knowledge content will be installed.
Release Compatibility
TKU 2020-May-1 is released in the following streams:
- Release compatible with BMC Discovery 11.x series.
Download
Customers can access this TKU release from the BMC Electronic Product Distribution Website. If you are a customer or partner and do not already have a login please contact your BMC account manager.
Check out this guideline if you are unsure how to download from BMC EPD site.
Release Contents
The release comprises components packaged as such entities:
- BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
- Core - Patterns that model various software products.
- Extended Database discovery - Patterns that extend some of the core database patterns to obtain additional detailed information about certain databases.
- Middleware discovery - Patterns that obtain detailed information about certain J2EE Application Servers and Web servers.
- Network Device Integration Module with associated Network Device definition files, Printer definition files and SNMP managed devices definition files.
- System - Patterns that detect configuration issues and populate Discovery Conditions BMC Discovery 11.1.xx, BMC Discovery 11.2.xx and BMC Discovery 11.3.xx as well as patterns used by the CMDB sync system.
BMC Discovery Extended Data Pack TKU 2020-May-1, which is a separately licensable product.
- Hardware Reference Data - Patterns and data import CSV file that populate BMC Discovery with power and heat consumption figures for various hosts.
- National Vulnerability Database - A pattern that populates BMC Discovery with information about the CPE ID of each product, full details here
- Product Lifecycle - Patterns that populate BMC Discovery with information about End-of-Life, End-of-Support, and End-of-Extended-Support for versions of certain host Operating Systems as well as versions of certain software products.
- BMC Discovery for Storage, which is a separately licensable product.
- Storage Systems: Patterns that model many Storage Systems. See the full list of currently supported storage devices here. Visit the Storage System Release Notes page to get details about what's new.
- Improvements on existing Storage patterns. See what we have fixed or improved in existing patterns in the Storage System Release Notes page.
Installation and Upgrade
Installation and upgrade details:
Products
Vendor | Product | Category | Platforms | Instances | Versioning | Product Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenText | Opentext EnCase Forensic | Security and Vulnerability Management Software | Windows, Unix | Y | Y | OpenText EnCase Forensic |
| Zabbix | Zabbix | Performance Management Software | Windows, Unix | Y | Y | Zabbix |
| Tanium | Tanium Core Platform | Security and Vulnerability Management Software | Windows, Unix | Y | Y | Tanium Core Platform |
Enhanced Pattern Modules
For details of why the SI Key Change field is important please see this documentation.
RFEs
RFE ref. | Product Page | Enhancement | SI Key Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRDC1-14899 | Apache Derby RDBMS | New Apache Derby Database Server versioning method is provided. | N |
| DRDC1-14924 | Sailpoint IdentityIQ | Updated versioning approach for Sailpoint IQ Service. | N |
| DRDC1-14933 | BMC Discovery | The trigger, active versioning, and Outposts linking are updated for FoundationSecurity. | N |
| DRDC1-14943 | Apache Subversion | Active versioning for ApacheSubversion is updated. | N |
| DRDC1-14493 | Control-M | Updated the Control-M linking. | N |
| DRDC1-14258 | Redis | The listening port is added to the Redis Server SI name. | N |
| DRDC1-14942 | Avi Networks Load Balancer | The Session Authentication credential type to discover Avi Network Load Balancer is added. | N |
| DRDC1-13682 | Citrix NetScaler VPX Load Balancer | Discover Partions on Citrix Load Balancer using the new authentication method. | N |
Defects Resolved
The following defects have been fixed in this BMC Discovery Technology Knowledge Update.
| Defect ref. | Details | Product Page | SI Key Change |
|---|---|---|---|
DRDC1-14855 | Problem: Wrong identification for IBM HTTP Server. | N | |
DRDC1-15077 | Problem: Clustered MSSQL SoftwareInstance is incorrectly reported in 2 CIs in CMDB (one BMC_SoftwareServer and one BMC_ApplicationSystem). | Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services | N |
DRDC1-14966 | Problem: Acronis software is incorrectly discovered as Veritas Enterprise Vault Storage Service. | N | |
DRDC1-14217 | Problem: Pattern/pattern modules hold broken links to the appropriate product pages. | Apache HTTPD-based Webservers | N |
| DRDC1-14633 | Problem: The Pattern Module BMC.MyIT_Smart_IT shows argument for os_class as "Unix". Solution: The argument for os_class is now being checked as "UNIX". | BMC Digital Workplace | N |
| DRDC1-14897 | Problem: Regex matching string in pattern doesn't match to extended string in file versioning method. Solution: Updated regex for file versioning. | Ab Initio Co-Operating System | N |
| DRDC1-14207 | Problem: IBM Cognos Express pattern module needs simplified product_version. Solution: Code fix. | IBM Cognos Express | N |
Command/File Matrix
The Command/File Matrix file (covering ALL commands executed and ALL files retrieved by the patterns) for TKU May 2020 can be downloaded from here.
The main command/file matrix documentation is accessible from the Got a Problem to Solve? page or directly from here.
Overview
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